Posted on 06/21/2014 4:07:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They are targeting the wrong pesticides. The GMO built ins are the problem, not the spray ons.
I hear ya.
Could well be.
Strange, about the regulations. Maybe he was referring to state regs? Here, a lot of people keep bees. The local Co-Op (farm and garden store), has everything you need to keep bees.
Every year I buy two gallons of local honey, dividing it into wide-mouth jars for easier usage. The beekeeper also makes a huckleberry and honey mixture that is beyond delicious. You can find honey from various local producers in every store. There is no regulation problems in northern Idaho.
We can also go into a grocery store and find fresh, raw cow or goat milk, lightly pasteurized and/or homogenized or not...
I have borage, mints and other bee favorites planted in areas bordering my food gardens. I feed the bees. ;) The wild bumblebees are a riot. They can smack into you, then slowly “bumble” away in a circular, bizarre manner of flight.
Yellow-jackets and hornets get the tennis-racket death if they bypass the traps. Amend that- the hornets get whacked, but seem to still survive a zillion-volts to their ends more than not, unless you hit it hard enough. My husband found an underground yellow-jacket nest that was bigger than a football. Vinegar, “neat”, did it in. The commercial spray only irked the hive.
I think this would be a great idea:
Test all pesticides on politicians first. Dip themin it, roll them in it. Put it in their food and drink. No additive-free ‘baccy either.
If they live afterwards with no apparent side-effects, then commence with human trials.
Cereals don't require bees.
metmom ~ On the surface, I'd almost have to agree.
But considering it's something obama is behind and for, I just can't shake the creeping suspicion that this is going to backfire in a way that we can't even comprehend yet.
EVERYTHING obama does either:
a) Weakens America/AmericansI have yet to have anyone raise a single substantive counter example in several years of posting this.
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Serves Islam
e) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
How do you see this bee task force as fitting that meme?
Eliminate pesticides and roughly one third of all food grown is consumed or damaged by insects.
Food prices for Americans skyrocket, weakening our economy.
Food exports to our friends and allies plummet. Weakening our relations with our allies.
Our allies are forced to trade with our enemies, strengthening their economies and influence.
The “progressives” couldn’t care less how many 3rd worlders starve, any more than they give a wit how many millions of 3rd worlder die year after year after year because if the DDT ban.
Historical footnote:
Do you know why Indonesia is predominantly muslim? Krakatoa. The volcanic ash wiped out agriculture. Muslims brought “charity”, convert to islam and we’ll feed you. Otherwise, starve infidel, starve.
Nobody is suggesting that all pesticides be banned.
Yet.......
It seems to me that we have a honey bee catastrophic population lost about once a decade. It appears rather cyclical to me....
Too bad you can’t buy GMO-ready bees.
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